Apple's Tempest In A Teapot Earnings Report

Investors punished Apple in after-hours trading Thursday for one or both of two reasons.
Despite a show-of-force performance in its fiscal fourth quarter, Apple's revenue forecast for the coming quarter was merely around Wall Street's previous average estimate. So far so not so serious.
What really seems to have ticked off the cranky collection of investments analysts, though, was Apple's decision to cease reporting unit sales of iPhones and the other gadgets its sells. Analysts, who like to be spoon-fed as much information as possible, interpreted this change to mean Apple foresees...Read more ...